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Currently when a product is deleted, any linked assets get relinked to a random product. This is concerning and causes confusion. If a product is deleted the asset should either also be deleted, or at the very least it should be unlinked from products and not assigned to a different product without our knowledge.
Thanks!
This same behavior is happening in several of our stores. If this is occurring, it would explain quite a few conundrums we have had in the past few months. See ticket: 287-2D7217F1-0B0C
Please fix this so that assets become unlinked by default or are also deleted with the corresponding product, as Mr. Riddle suggests. It can even be a checkbox on your deletion warning pop-up: "Do you want to delete assets associated with this product?" or something like that. If yes, the asset is deleted from the site. Otherwise, it stays online but unlinks.
I wasn't even aware of this behavior. Definitely feels buggish to me and should be fixed ASAP.
Ideally there could be a checkbox on the product deletion screen indicating that you want to delete any attached asset files, but regardless they should simply become unlinked to any product as a default action.